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This is specifically for any Global Human Right council activity or events.

2018

2018-06-19 Under the first Trump administration the U.S. withdrew from the UN Human Rights Council. Secretary Pompeo called the council “a poor defender of human rights”, accused it of allowing authoritarian government in its membership, claimed unfair election processes, and claimed bias against Israel. The UN representative at the time Nikki Haley also made her remarks.

https://geneva.usmission.gov/2018/06/21/remarks-on-the-un-human-rights-council/

2024

2024-12-16 A Human Rights Watch report examined the use of family-separation as a deterrent and cited that 1,360 children remained separated from their parents six years later.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/12/16/us-lasting-harm-family-separation-border

2026

2026-04-21 Amnesty International’s annual Global Human Rights report described the leaders of Israel, Russia, and the United States as “voracious predators” pursuing economic and political domination, citing the Iran war, genocide, violence in Lebanon, and the Gaza conflict

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol10/0320/2026/en/

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/21/headlines/amnesty_international_blasts_predatory_world_order_of_netanyahu_putin_and_trump

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/20/predators-amnesty-slams-netanyahu-putin-trump-as-human-rights-decline